Yin Polita hurriedly walked into the camp with his soldiers and horses. As the soldiers reported, the camp was empty.
Yinpolita heard the Duke of Burgundy talk about Ella's tactics, so she paid special attention: "Go and check the warehouse to see what's inside. Check carefully, check every bag!"
The soldiers quickly found the warehouse, but it was empty. The materials in the warehouse have been transferred away, and there is only a little flour scattered on the ground. There was also a simple bag woven from rope containing several eggs. The bag is very rough, and the overly wide mesh can only keep the eggs from falling out of it. One of the ropes woven into the bag was stretched and tied to the top of the tent, hanging the egg-filled bag dangling dangerously in the air.
Yin Bolita took off the bag and looked around for a long time, but didn't see what it was for.
"Go to the top of the tent and under the wooden wall to see if there is anything flammable hidden!"
The soldiers searched the camp up and down according to Yin Bolita's instructions, and found nothing suspicious except dust.
"There must be something abnormal! Search carefully again, push every board to see if there is a secret door!"
This time, the soldiers found a simple, manually dug tunnel that led outside the camp.
Yin Polita came to the tunnel entrance and saw that the door of the tunnel entrance was not locked.
"Did you open it?" she asked.
"No, this door was unlocked when we came!"
Yin Bolita laughed as if he had understood everything: "This kind of secret passage must be closed at ordinary times. We did not surround the camp, so they did not need to use this retreat. But this door is open now... It is obvious that they want to use it. This one comes back for a surprise attack.”
Yin Polita took advantage of the situation and asked the soldiers to prepare an ambush, just waiting for Ella to take the bait.
One night passed. No one came.
"It's impossible... this door is open. The enemy must want to come back. Wait one more night to see!"
Another night passed. Soldiers managed to capture a rat that escaped from a tunnel.
"At one stroke, it will weaken again, and then it will be exhausted. The enemy will definitely come tonight..."
When the sun came up on the fourth day, Yin Bolita, who had two dark circles under his eyes, couldn't bear it and let the soldiers burn down the camp.
…
Ella had left Constantiniya four days ago and was now heading to Azov by boat with her eight thousand soldiers.
"So, Your Majesty, we failed, right?" Amy asked sadly.
This time, Ella didn't lay any ambush. After thinking for a long time, all she did was let the pirates quietly leave the camp and escape Constantiniya by sea overnight.
The only trap she laid was to open the tunnel door before retreating.
As it turns out, this trap works pretty well.
"This is the best result." Andrea said: "The number of enemies is nearly 40,000, which is five times our number. With so many people, it is impossible for them all to attack the city. Even if we hold on to the camp and disperse them The strength of their troops will not affect their siege of Constantiniya at all. We can't play any role there at all. In this case, normal people will choose to retreat."
"I know that normal people would retreat at this time... But if His Majesty was a normal person, he would not have led troops to camp in Constantiniya at all." Amy's voice was obviously low, "I thought Your Majesty was sure He will use all kinds of strange methods to hold back the enemy... but he unexpectedly ends up running away."
"So what if you escape?" Ella said, "There are military strategists in the East who specifically discuss escape. 'The enemy is completely victorious and I cannot fight. Then: I must surrender; I must make peace; I must leave. If I surrender, I will be completely defeated, and if I fight, I will surrender." If you are half defeated, if you leave, you are not defeated. 'It is better to run away than to surrender or beg for peace."
"But if this happens, Constantiniya will be captured by the Alemanni coalition."
Ella sighed: "I can only hope that my uncle can stay here longer."
"Stand for a while longer?" Andrea heard the hint in Ella's words, "King of Sweden, even if the situation has reached this critical point, do you still want to intervene in this war?"
"That's natural. There is another sentence behind that argument - 'The undefeated will have a chance to win.' The purpose of escaping is for the final victory! If we don't send Patisipaccio to the gallows, I will Never give up!"
Andrea was extremely surprised: "King of Sweden, tell me the truth, what grudges have you made with the Island Republic? You said last time that you wanted to recover losses from the Island Republic, but this reason is not used to deal with Seven The same goes for the Qiu Empire. You and the Island Republic were allies before, and you even helped him attack our Republic of Liguria!"
"The reason for attacking the Republic of Liguria is because the Republic of Liguria moved the merchant ships under my protection. The Island Republic and I are not allies - on the contrary, as a tributary of the Seven Hills Empire, they colluded with the Alemannic Federation. This I can’t forgive this behavior!”
Amy chuckled softly from the side: "Your Majesty, subconsciously you still think of yourself as Baselisa..."
"Baselisa?" Andrea reacted to the title again, "King of Sweden, how can you be... is it really you?"
The predecessor of the Seven Hills Empire, Baselisa, died after being captured by pirates. This is a fact that everyone in the Ligurian Republic knows. Although there are also rumors that the Swedish King of the Pirate Kingdom is the royal family of the Seven Hills Empire, this statement is so ridiculous that it is usually only used as an after-dinner joke to ridicule the incompetence of the Seven Hills Empire.
"King of Sweden...are you...Baselisa?"
"I think I am," Ella replied.
After realizing the true identity of the little girl in front of her, Andrea's body shook. Then, he stood up leaning on the table.
On that old face, a pair of sharp eyes like an eagle stared directly at Ella.
"King of Sweden, I actually knew your uncle's plan for a long time...before he implemented the coup."
Andrea's sudden words left Ella at a loss: "Hey... do you know too? You are really well-informed about the news in the Republic of Liguria...?"
"But I am indifferent to this. The throne of the Seven Hills Empire has never been monopolized by any one person or family. Even the Scipio family has lost the throne several times in the past few hundred years. In this matter, you should You know that too, right?"
Ella nodded hesitantly: "I know. Not just in the past few hundred years, but actually since Augustus, the Seven Hills Empire has always been the one with the strongest troops and horses..."
"I don't obey you."
Andrea said something again that shocked Ella.
"Not only am I dissatisfied with you, I am also dissatisfied with every Basileus so far! It has been more than eight hundred years since the death of the Son of God. Under the governance of generations of Basileus, the Seven Hills Empire has become weaker and weaker. Now it is even being The barbarians of the Alemannic Federation surrounded the capital. How can these people be worthy of becoming the kings of the Seven Hills Empire!"
In order to avoid Ella's embarrassment, Amy pulled Andrea in time: "General Andrea, now is not the time to talk about such things, is it?"
Amy's words made Andrea realize her gaffe. "Sorry." He bowed, "King of Sweden, just think I'm drunk in the bar."
"No, Andrea, your words are interesting."
Ella tapped her hand on the table, seeming to have made up her mind.
"Andrea, do you have a way to resolve this crisis in the Qiqiu Empire?"
"Although I am very reluctant, I am afraid there is nothing I can do." Andrete's face looked very ugly. "If they use that terrible ocean fire to defend the Black Sea Strait, there is nothing I can do."
"Then if I let you win, how about you recognize me as Baselisa, Andrea?"
